{"id":394748,"date":"2021-09-17T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T19:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=394748"},"modified":"2021-09-17T21:06:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T20:06:58","slug":"abuja-police-drag-man-to-court-for-insulting-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=394748","title":{"rendered":"Abuja: Police drag man to court for insulting officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has arraigned Lekan Sebanjo before a Karu Grade 1 Area Court on Friday for allegedly insulting officers on duty.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was accused of obstructing public servants in the discharge of their functions.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old, who resides at Jikwoyi on the outskirts of Abuja, denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor, Ayotunde Adeyanju, told the court that Sebanjo committed the offence on August 15.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju recalled that policemen led by ASP Bukar Mohammed intercepted an offender and his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom nowhere, Sebanjo came out to rain insults on the police operatives thereby obstructing them from discharging their functions,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju added that the offence contravened provisions of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Anas Isa, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.<\/p>\n<p>Isa adjourned the case to October 6 for further hearing.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has arraigned Lekan Sebanjo before a Karu Grade 1 Area Court on Friday for allegedly insulting officers on duty. The defendant was accused of obstructing public servants in the discharge of their functions. The 28-year-old, who resides at Jikwoyi on the outskirts of Abuja, denied the allegation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,28,61],"class_list":["post-394748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-abuja","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/394749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}